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Snowden about Russia
May. 30th, 2014 08:04 pm(he doesn't seem to appreciate the irony)
“It’s really frustrating — for someone who’s working so hard to expand the domain of our rights and our privacy, to end up stuck in a place where those rights are — are being challenged in ways that I would consider deeply unfair. The recent blogger’s registration law in Russia, I can’t think of any basis for a law like that, not just in Russia but in any country.
” … The government,” he said, “shouldn’t be regulating the operations of a free press whether it’s NBC or whether it’s some blogger in their living room. … there’s so much that needs to be defended here in Russia, but I’m limited by my inability to speak Russian and so on and so forth that it’s — it’s an isolating and a frustrating thing.”
“It’s really frustrating — for someone who’s working so hard to expand the domain of our rights and our privacy, to end up stuck in a place where those rights are — are being challenged in ways that I would consider deeply unfair. The recent blogger’s registration law in Russia, I can’t think of any basis for a law like that, not just in Russia but in any country.
” … The government,” he said, “shouldn’t be regulating the operations of a free press whether it’s NBC or whether it’s some blogger in their living room. … there’s so much that needs to be defended here in Russia, but I’m limited by my inability to speak Russian and so on and so forth that it’s — it’s an isolating and a frustrating thing.”
